Colección Privada: The Super-8 And 16mm Scene In Spain

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Many Eyes, Many Centers, Moving (Maria Pipla, 2022)

In the last fifteen years, Spanish cities have seen the flourishing of heterogeneous communities devoted to maintaining analog film culture. Through material exchange, mutual influence, informal screenings, and friendship, three generations of filmmakers intermingle in Madrid, Barcelona, Coruña, and San Sebastian in an extraordinary moment for Spanish poetic cinema. These programs survey the output of 24 filmmakers who continue to work in 16mm and Super-8, cultivating a cinema in tension with the quotidian in a drive to capture or conjure experience. This series is presented with generous support from Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) and from the Cultural Department of the Consulate General of Spain. Special thanks to MONO NO AWARE. The screenings will be presented in person by guest-curators Francisco Algarín Navarro and Carlos Saldaña, from Lumière. PROGRAM 1. EXPANDED CINEMA SCREENING Museum of Moving Image (MoMI). Redstone Theater –May 13– 1.00pm With filmmakers Valentina Alvarado Matos, Carlos Vásquez and Juan Bufill in person This very special program brings together filmmakers who transcend theatrical conventions through the performative use of multiple projectors, supplementary screens, live sound, and their own bodies. These works deal with topics such as illness and healing, physical erosion, body rituals, and the perception of time, all mediated by the cathartic nature of light. As an interlude between the expanded film pieces, the groundbreaking single-screen film Ver piedras / Signos de sol (1988-2014), by Juan Bufill, is screened in its Super 8 reversal original.

Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas HEALING RAY 2021 ca. 45 min, 16mm triple projection
Juan Bufill VER PIEDRAS / SIGNOS DE SOL 1988-2014, 14 mins, Super-8mm
Valentina Alvarado Matos & Carlos Vásquez Méndez FUEGOFOCFIRE 2020-23, 30 min, 16mm multiple projection

PROGRAM 2. FREE VERSE Anthology Film Archives – May 13– 7.30pm With filmmakers Blanca García, Jorge Suárez-Quiñones and Juan Bufill in person. Daily life, travel diaries, representation of self, portraiture and subjective perception are threads that run through this first program on recent Spanish lyrical cinema, covering n array of genres and editing strategies. While featuring some experiments with montage, most filmmakers explore in-camera editing in unique ways, ranging from an improvisatory connection with a specific time and place to intricate versifications of the real.

Pablo Marín DENKBILDER 2013, 5 min, Super-8mm
Ana Pfaff POMELL DE FLORS ESPIRITUALS 2011, 3 min, Super-8mm
Leonor Serrano Rivas OIR FORMAS 2022, 10 min, 16mm
Elena Duque COLECCIÓN PRIVADA 2020, 13 min, Super-8mm
Juan Bufill VILLA DIONISIA 2003-19, 5 min, Super-8mm
Gadea Burgaz ¡BU! (CON ADMIRACIÓN) 2023, 15 min, Super-8mm
Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas AKIKONOMU 2019, 3 min, Super-8mm
Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas CHUBUSANGAKU 2019, 3 min, Super-8mm
Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas MURASAKI 2019, 3 min, Super-8mm
Blanca García IPSAE (ABI) 2021, 3 min, Super-8mm
Blanca García IPSAE (GUILLERMINA) 2021, 3 min, Super-8mm
Blanca García IPSAE (MARIA) 2021, 3 min, Super-8mm
Blanca García IPSAE (ANDREA) 2021, 3 min, Super-8mm
Yonay Boix #005 2020, 3 min, Super-8mm
Yonay Boix #006 2021, 3 min, Super-8mm
Yonay Boix & Ariadna Onofri #007 2021, 3 min, Super-8mm
Claudio Sodi SUEÑOS PARA EVA – PARTE 1 2022, 22 min, 16mm
Elena Duque MAR DE CORAL 2021, 11 min, Super-8mm

All films are screened in their original analog formats and most are presented in their reversal originals for this rare occasion, including five world premieres and eight North American premieres. PROGRAM 3. ESPECIES DE ESPACIOS Anthology Film Archives – 14 de mayo – 19h30 With filmmakers Laura Ibáñez, Valentina Alvarado Matos, and Juan Bufill in person.

This program on recent Spanish lyrical cinema showcases filmmakers who work with visual concepts, preconceived camera devices and objectual mise-en-scène. Based on body gestures, transformations of matter, philosophical writings, landscape, architecture and the ‘maneuverable’ possibilities of the camera, these works offer a heterogeneous take on modern explorations in analog film.

Maria Pipla MANY EYES, MANY CENTERS, MOVING 2022, 3 min, 16mm
Valentina Alvarado Matos PROPIEDADES DE UNA ESFERA PARALELA 2020, 17 min, 16mm doble proyección
Céline Latil LX VISAGES 2022, 3 min, 16mm
Laura Moreno MONTE ULÍA 2023, 3 min, 16mm
Álvaro Feldman DIORAMA 2022, 3 min, Super-8mm
Aldara Pagán MARCAS 2020, 10 min, Super-8mm
Laura Ibáñez López CORPÚSCULOS 2022, 2 min, 16mm
Albert Triviño NIÀGARA 2008, 3 min, Super-8mm
Albert Triviño BOMBOLLES 2009 (VANITAS SÍLVIA) , 3 min, Super-8mm
Bruno Delgado Ramo SPINOZA/ONGODIST 2021, 11 min, Super-8mm
Alba Sauleda L’AUTORRETRAT REFILMAT (IV) 2015, 3 min, Super-8mm
Deneb Martos & Pablo Useros WHITE SCREEN (FOR AMY HALPERN) 2022, 5 min, 16mm
Bruno Delgado Ramo UNABRIDGED MANEUVER 2022, 17 min, 16mm
Juan Bufill ARQUITECTURA 3. PUENTE 2004, 5 min, Super-8mm

All films are screened in their original formats (among which, a 16mm double-projection). Most are presented in their reversal originals for this rare occasion, including five world premieres and five North American premieres.

Dossier by Lumière magazine Colección privada. The Super 8 and 16mm Scene in Spain